Fellow Vexedtropians,
Per Emlyn's suggestion:
>Try to get creative if you need to insult people.
<snip>
>I think if people's personal attacks on each other could make people laugh
until it hurt, no-one
>would be quite so cranky about the whole flamewar problem, because it
wouldn't be so boring.
>
>The key is probably to drop all pretense at rational debate, and just get
down to some good old
>character assassination. But its got to be stylish!
To which end I submit the following:
To construct a Shakespearean insult, combine one word from each of the
three columns below
and preface it with "Thou":
+---------------+------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| artless | base-court | apple-john |
| bawdy | bat-fowling | baggage |
| beslubbering | beef-witted | barnacle |
| bootless | beetle-headed | bladder |
| churlish | boil-brained | boar-pig |
| cockered | clapper-clawed | bugbear |
| clouted | clay-brained | bum-bailey |
| craven | common-kissing | canker-blossom |
| currish | crook-pated | clack-dish |
| dankish | dismal-dreaming | clotpole |
| paunchy | ill-breeding | lout |
| pribbling | ill-nurtured | maggot-pie |
| puking | knotty-pated | malt-worm |
| puny | milk-livered | mammet |
| qualling | motley-minded | measle |
| rank | onion-eyed | minnow |
| reeky | plume-plucked | miscreant |
| spongy | rude-growing | pignut |
| surly | rump-fed | puttock |
| tottering | shard-borne | pumpion |
| unmuzzled | sheep-biting | ratsbane |
| vain | spur-galled | scut
|
| venomed | swag-bellied | skainsmate |
| villainous | tardy-gaited | strumpet |
| warped | tickle-brained | varlet |
| wayward | toad-spotted | vassal |
| weedy | unchin-snouted | whey-face |
| yeasty | weather-bitten | wagtail |
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So have at it, thou villianous fardel-humped curmudgeons thou.
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
Ray Charles